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I agree with Jeremy W. This place is ruled with an iron fist. Look, it's their chat site, and they can rule it anyway they please. I get that. Still, the way they choose to run it really kills the experience.
The rules are far too strict; your freedom is very limited. It's ran more like a daycare center than a chat room of almost entirely adults.
The mods appear to have mental problems, being both barely literate and having underdeveloped social skills. It's impossible to reason with them, which makes the strictness all the more frustrating.
The admins also get quite personal. I've seen many people banned with insulting messages attached. They take the unprofessional road of adding insult to injury.
There are privacy concerns. It's become a well-known fact that the moderators can and do spy on PM's. They claim this is for the sake of adequate moderating, but I suspect there are more nefarious reasons.
It's also come to light that the admins can view everyone's password, entirely unencrypted. While I've not seen any evidence of this being abused, it's still unnerving.
The overall experience was a huge negative, and if I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't. I'd save my time and effort and go to a chat site that wasn't horrible, like UKChatters.net (an unaffiliated site).
Tip for consumers:
Use another chat site instead (I recommend the unaffiliated UKChatters.net).
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UKChatters is nothing but a pile of junk. The pool of people is terrible, the quality of people...
The site was ok at first. I made a few PayPal donations from their main page to support the site...
Hi, whilst you are entitled to your opinion some of the "facts" in this review are false and quite libellous.
" I've seen many people banned with insulting messages attached. They take the unprofessional road of adding insult to injury."
When users are banned fromo ur service they are with predefined messages such as "account suspended", "abuse", and similar. No personal message are added.
"It's become a well-known fact that the moderators can and do spy on PM's."
We call the traditional "moderators" hosts on our service. As is made clear in our terms and conditions and community standards only administrators and above can access private message, not "moderators" aka hosts.
"It's also come to light that the admins can view everyone's password, entirely unencrypted. While I've not seen any evidence of this being abused, it's still unnerving."
This is completely untrue, no modern website stores password in plain text, we are no different. All of our passwords are stored encrypted, none of which are even viewable by any volunteers, only the website owner can see encrypted passwords as part of general access to the database which can't be converted to plain text.
It is clear this review is by a well known troll who uses our service to try and direct people to a skype service, I would be very wary of letting these types of people see your private skype ID and information.
The choice of URL is quite flattering though;-)